A High Court judge in Harare will next week rule on whether
emails at the center of treason charges against opposition MDC Treasurer and minister designate, Roy Bennett, are admissible during the high profile trial. The Emails will serve as a test case on the use of intercepted communications under Zimbabwean law.
The controversial stab proof vests designed for tourists and going to South Africa for World Cup 2010, scheduled for June, have hit the market with one vest selling for $69,000.
Zimbabwe is not known for spending its meagre resources in the right places, at least not until the formation of the unity government. The military is replete with hardware and supplies, while other sectors of government go by on a pittance. The health sector is heavily underfunded, and civil servants poorly paid, while warehouses suffocate with teargas and polished military hardware. IA
Nonprofit groups that specialize in investigative reporting have had some big scoops, cracking the front page of such newspapers as The Washington Post and forcing officials out of their jobs. Now the question is whether these organizations can stay afloat on donations.
The High Court in Harare has dismissed confessions obtained under duress by state security agents from arms dealer Michael Peter Hitschmann, paving way for his impeachment as key witness in the high profile trial of the Deputy Agriculture Minister-designate Roy Bennett.
The MDC says the case against Bennett is politically motivated and aimed at keeping him out of the transitional government the party formed with ZANU PF party led by President Mugabe. Bennett is a Deputy Agriculture Minister appointee of Prime Minister Tsvangirai, but he is yet to be sworn-in by President Mugabe since February last year.
The celebrated deep throat is evolving, from that trustworthy, well placed official, to a bunch of seemingly credible, anonymous twitters or bloggers, some of whom are still well places officials. It seems the lines are blurring… after all. Its a mean, blogging, tweeting and re-tweeting, tabloid world!
This is not the first time government employees from Botswana are arrested in Zimbabwe as in 2006, a former Botswana Television reporter and cameraman Koketso Seofela were fined arrested and Z$5 000 (about P128) for breaking Zimbabwean Immigration laws by crossing into that country without permission.
Saddam Hussein’s cousin and aide Chemical Ali has been executed.
